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News Release from: Young Engineers
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 22 August 2005

Junior engineers to converge on
Greenwich

Young Engineers has announced the finalists for the 2005 Young Engineers for Britain and YEDA (Young Electronic Designer Awards) competitions.

Young Engineers has announced the finalists for the 2005 Young Engineers for Britain and YEDA (Young Electronic Designer Awards) competitions, which will be held at the Annual Celebration of Engineering in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich on 13th September 31 finalists in four age groups - A (academic years 6, 7, 8 and 9), B (academic years 10 and 11), C (academic years 12 and 13) and D ( working in industry) - have qualified for the event after taking part in their regional heats at eleven different locations nationwide

Also at the Annual Celebration of Engineering, a further 40 students aged from 10-18 from ten Young Engineers Clubs around the UK have been selected to compete for the Club of the Year Awards and another 23 pupils aged 9-11 from 11 primary schools have qualified to compete in the national final of the K'Nex Challenge.

Projects at the event cover all aspects of engineering and range from a new innovation to rescue sailors, who may fall overboard and suffer from hyperthermia to a device to help firemen locate people trapped in blazing buildings and a novel trailer, which allows heavy loads to be simply raised or lowered and attached to, or detached from a vehicle with the minimum of effort, to an automatic raking gadget for long jump and triple jump sand pits at athletics meetings, which comes hot on the heels of London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics.

A total of GBP 50,000 in prizes is up for grabs in the competition as well as a trip to America to represent the UK in the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).

One of last year's winners in Young Engineers, Richard Entwisle (18), a student from Canford School in Dorset, who won a trip to the 2005 ISEF event in Phoenix, Arizona became world champion in the engineering category.

His device enables the height of a wheelchair to be automatically adjusted by the occupant to suit different needs, for example when eating at a table, working on a computer, or to rise above the rest to gain a better view of an event.

At ISEF he was part of an international field of 1500 competitors, 250 of whom were in the engineering category.

His prize was $3000 and a sightseeing tour of famous American attractions.

In addition he had a comet named after him.

A similar opportunity is up for grabs in the 2005 Young Engineers event.

"I had a fantastic week in Phoenix", said Entwisle, "which included a trip to the Grand Canyon, a visit to an authentic 'Wild West' town and a round of golf on a championship golf course".

"Then, to cap it all, I was flown to New York to appear on the NBC Today programme".

"There is no doubt that entering the Young Engineers for Britain and YEDA competitions changed my life and has convinced me now to pursue an engineering career, I would certainly recommend any student to contact Young Engineers if they want to have the chance of reliving my experience of a lifetime".

Entwisle has been interested in making things work for as long as he can remember, starting by building machines such as Martian buggies from Lego Technic and K'Nex.

When he was 13 he went to Canford School, where he developed his interest further and his parents even bought him a MIG welding machine, which enabled him to add a new dimension to his model building.

He now looks forward to beginning an engineering degree course at Warwick University in October.

Accompanying Entwisle on the trip to America were two other winners from last year's Young Engineers' competition: Jason Lowe from Lancaster Royal Grammar School with his novel decorator's gadget for cleaning paint rollers, and Peter Kirkland from Dalriada School in County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a portable scientific instrument, which links an inclinometer and GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) that he designed to help geologists determine the structure of rocks.

Kirkland joined Entwisle among the prizes, receiving not only $3000 as a winner in three further categories, but also the added bonus of a trip to China.

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